Haiti Dreadlocks Protest Eurocentric Profiling

Haiti dreadlocks hold a demonstration protesting US-trained and supported Haiti militarized police illegally detaining them to cut off their hair. The Dreads demand a stop to the profiling and selective picking for arrest, assault and discrimination of Haitians simply for their African-ness in Desalin’s land, now occupied by the imperialist and their Eurocentric neo-Duvalierist puppet regime

Haiti Dreadlock Wearers Demand: A Stop to Persecution by US Puppet Regime

Respect the rights of the Dread, Locks. Twist, Braid and Afro-wearers. We have the right not to look like you! Photo Credit: Jelin Esau Jules

We Have the Right to Look Different

Stop arbitrarily arresting and assaulting Dreads in Haiti: We Have A Right to be Different Photo credit: Tina Lorquet

A Dreadlock-wearers demonstration, held on December 3, 2014 in Haiti, protested the Haiti militarized police action that corralled, at gun-point, several dread men, forced them to lay down and brutally chopped and cut-off their dreads, twists and locks. In addition, all over Haiti are protesting for an end to the US occupation behind UN guns, an end to their imposed Eurocentric Martelly-Lamothe government which puts foreign interests and aesthetics ahead of Haiti interests.

The dreadlock-wearing protestors are asking for justice and reparation for these illegal state actions. They claim the right to grow their hair, afro their hair, dread, twist, braid and lock anyway they wish and that those men who were most recently assaulted, they’re hairs chopped-off were not breaking any laws for the police to summarily assault and profile them this way. The Dread demonstrators walked from the Art School – Ecole Nationale des Arts (ENARTS) – to Parliament then past in front of the Cathedral turning back towards the Petion University and ENARTS center again. This is the first of such planned protest actions, and the Dreadlocked community intends to file an official complaint asking the Martelly-Lamothe government for an immediate investigation into this most recent brutal Babylon police (Polisye Babilòn)’s acts against Dreads in Haiti.